STRANDED Ch. 13-
Fluttershy was eye to eye with a creature of the same description that Rainbow Dash had given her when they were talking on the beach. Fluttershy didn't care. Her heart was in pieces. The creature stood there and had the creepiest grin plastered on its face. The creature slowly moved on the shy, broken pony, keeping a constant yet slow pace as to not startle her. Fluttershy didn't move. The creature drew its claws and went into a prone position, as if he were a cat about to pounce on a mouse. Fluttershy still held her head down, still not moving a muscle. The creature pounced.
BOOM!
The creatures face was met with Fluttershy's right hoof that sent it flying almost ten yards. Fluttershy's eyes had tears streaming, but her actions were of anger, not sadness. She was taking in deep breaths and grinding her teeth furiously. The creature was killed on impact. Fluttershy saw what she had done and the anger left her. "I... I killed it..." she softly told herself. "I just... killed... a living thing..." She looked at the creatures body with a new stream of tears. "I'm... a monster..." she whispered to herself. "A... monster..." she said, looking at her hooves right before her eyes. She felt a new feeling wash over her, one she had never felt before. She dried her tears and fixed her posture as she walked deeper into the jungle with this new felling, new instinct. The instinct... of... survival...
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Apple Bloom was sitting by herself, thinking back to what she had said to her sister. "She probably hates ME now..." she said as she sulked her head in her hooves. "How could I have said such a thing to my own sister... to Apple Jack..." The tears flowed without hindrance. "Now I don't have anypony... nopony at all..." She sat there in self loathing for about ten minutes before she noticed something to her right. It was Glindrak berries. They were pure white with red dots all around them. "I... I've seen these before... but where..." she asked herself before it suddenly hit her. "I've read about these in one of Zecora's books. These are extremely poisonous, able to kill a pony in mere minutes once consumed..." She picked one of the berries. "I wonder..." She looked hard at the Glindrak berries, as to make sure they were the right ones.
She held the berries up to her mouth. "Nopony cares about me anymore..." She edged the berries closer. "Nopony cares..." She ate them. "Anymore..."
She felt her motor skills immediately give way as she fell to the ground, unable to move. She felt no pain as her mouth started to foam and her eyes rolling back. Her body started to shake violently as the berries poisonous juices coursed through her veins. After about one minute her body stopped. Her heart, her nerves, her very being ceased to function as she took one final breath, thinking back to the heart-broken look on her sister's face as she said those three little words...
'I HATE YOU'...
"I'm... sorry... Apple... Jack..."
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Rarity was thinking about what she had said to Sweetie Bell and how she had raised her tone at her only sister. "Why did I raise my voice at her, oh why?" she asked herself. "I'm sure this will all be sorted out by tomorrow." she told herself in hopes of convincing herself of that lie. "Oh Twilight, why did you have to go all crazy on us?" She was right beside the purple unicorn when she noticed a loud sound off in the direction Fluttershy was in. "That's... odd..." she said.
Rarity was exhausted. "Like I said, I'm sure this will all be sorted out by tomorrow..." She knew she was telling lies to herself but what other choice did she have. "Everything will be better in the morning..." she said, slowly drifting to sleep. "Better... in the... morning..."
In the morning...